March 13, 2012

Memorial sought for Mankato 38

Battles are noted and soldiers who "gallantly resisted two formidable and protracted assaults" are named at the Fort Ridgely monument. More recently, a buffalo symbolizing reconciliation sits at the spot of the Mankato executions that ended the conflict.

"They have markers all along the road about our savage Indians attacking white people," said Wabasha, who has been married to Ernest Wabasha, a hereditary Dakota chief, for 56 years.